Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, some of the conflicts between blacks and Jews have been false; but a false comity is not much better than a false conflict. Not every fight is the result of misunderstanding. There are fights that are the result of understanding. In the wake of the latest Farrakhan flap, the positions of many black leaders are more clearly understood. In some cases, this is for the better. In many cases, it is for the better. We do not need to honor each other as brothers. We need to honor each other as citizens...
...home of one autistic family had a "well-used trampoline, where the whole family, at times, likes to jump and flap their arms...
Last Friday afternoon, President Clinton talked in the Oval Office with TIME White House correspondents Margaret Carlson, James Carney and Michael Duffy. On Clinton's desk was a hardcover book, The Culture of Disbelief by Stephen L. Carter, with the jacket flap folded in as a place marker. He appeared relaxed and spoke softly...
...videos of her performances, can be watched at the Guggenheim, but the main body of the show is sculpture: mechanized objects that pump liquids around, or reduce lumps of carbon to black dust with tiny pecking hammers, or swivel suspended binoculars in an anxious parody of disembodied inspection, or flap small wings. Some devices, slender granddaughters of Jean Tinguely's painting machines of the '50s, splatter paint around on the walls or (with more fetishistic suggestion) on women's shoes. No doubt to spare the clothes of the museum audience, these stay switched off, leaving dried Abstract Expressionist trickles...
Like "RoboCop" and "Basic Instinct," "Hard Target" went through the same tortuous wrangling with the MPAA ratings board; a prologue to the release of "naughty" films which became trite with the blatantly orchestrated flap over "Sliver." Reportedly, "Target" had to be whittled at seven times before it could earn an "R" rating...